[OSM-talk] Web service with OSM contributor names + copyright

[Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)]

>About individual contributors: I can imagine a web service which returns
>Display Names of all the contributors of certain area, what about this? Step
>further: a web service which generates transparent png image for me to be
>used as proper attribution, whatever is the current license/attribution
>requirement (input: bounding box and image size)? If the image would be less
>than 24x80 pixels then it could be used in mobile too, certainly OpenLayers
>could use it. It would be not just for the legal stuff, but also extra
>motivation for contributors: "look, there is also my name on the map of my
>street!"

2010/6/29 ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <g.gremmen at cetest.nl>:
>>It would be not just for the legal stuff, but also extra
>>motivation for contributors: "look, there is also my name on the map of my
>> street!"
>
> That is not a healthy motivation for a "open"streetmapper.

I do not understand it. This is something what Google Map Maker has,
and I think this is cool idea.

If we give badges, visible personal attribution on maps, points on
global/regional top for edits etc then it does not make streetmapping
less open in any way. It would rather generate more active returning
editors. Maybe in some regions you have already enough  "grazy
editors", who just love mapping for nothing and feel bad if their
contribution comes out, but in other regions you don't and we could
increase number of mappers with some "soft compensations" which cost
nothing and show appreciation to their effort.

Jaak